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Fall Semester 2019
First term: September 11 - October 25
Second term: October 28 - December 13
Non-credit short courses, lectures,
study trips, and special events
for adults aged 50+
Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
ncsu.edu/olli
919.515.5782What is the Osher LLI? OLLI Fall Sneak Peek and
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at NC State (OLLI) Ice Cream Social
provides noncredit courses, study trips, and special
Do you want to learn more about OLLI’s new
events for adults aged 50+. Founded in 1991 as the Encore
fall courses and new instructors? Do you
Program for Lifelong Enrichment, we changed our name
want the chance to meet these instructors
in 2014 to reflect our connection to the Osher Lifelong
and visit with your fellow members while
Learning Institute Network, a group of over 100 lifelong
enjoying NC State’s Howling Cow ice cream?
learning institutes that have received support from The
Our annual ice cream social previews the fall
Bernard Osher Foundation.
lineup and gives you the chance to catch up
with your OLLI friends. If you are new to OLLI,
Membership is at the core of our program, and we rely on
you’ll have the opportunity to meet staff and
members taking an active role, whether in the classroom
get a sense of the program before our Open
or behind the scenes helping us design the program.
House in September.
Part of what makes our learning community special
is the exchange of ideas in the classroom from those This event is free, but you must register.
with diverse backgrounds. Our instructors volunteer in Support for this event is made possible by
order to keep your fees low, and they find it rewarding The Bernard Osher Foundation.
because of this rich learning atmosphere. Since our Course #: LLI-4-050-003
classes are noncredit, the only prerequisite is a desire Date: Tuesday, August 13 Time: 2:00 - 3:00
to learn. There are no tests or grades, and homework is Location: McKimmon Center
optional! Members also have the chance to participate Room: TBD, check lobby monitors
in extracurricular special interest groups, which are Registration Deadline: August 9
completely member-organized. Most classes are held
at NC State’s McKimmon Center for Extension and
Continuing Education, which is easily accessible and has
ample free parking. We hope you will join our community
of learners!
No tests, no grades, and
homework is optional!
We thank the following generous sponsors for their support of OLLI:
Platinum Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
The Cardinal at North Hills
SearStone Retirement Community
Learn more about our sponsors at www.ncsu.edu/olliFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Monday
Monday Manager Kimberly Little will join
us on Oct. 21 to discuss the role of
conferences, health and wellness
education, community awareness
the Program Committee and how to programs, and professional in-service
Battles of the American develop a class or lecture. training; provides support, services,
Revolution - 1776 Instructor: John Luecke; Bachelor’s and and resource information to people
Master’s in Communication, University with dementia and both family and
Join us for the second of an ongoing of Wisconsin-Madison; worked in professional caregivers.
series of courses about the battles private industry before transitioning Course #: LLI-2-041-003
of the American Revolution. We are to teaching; earned intercultural Three Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
exploring the battles of the Revolution studies certificates from the University Sept. 16, 23, 30
as they occurred, year by year. This of British Columbia, Intercultural Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
course will cover the battles of 1776. Communication Institute; taught at the Fee: $40.00
Some of these you may be familiar University of Wisconsin-Whitewater,
with, including Moores Creek, Long participating in travel study programs
Island and Trenton; but, there are to Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway
dozens more, including the 2nd and Spain; taught communication at
Cherokee War, the Bahamas, Sullivan’s High Point University; taught at the NC Before you register . . .
Island, and White Plains! Join us in State Prague Institute in 2014; currently
the exploration of why the men and offers intercultural training to expat Thanks to the excellent
their leaders met on the fields of managers in various international work of our Program
strife to help and/or resist giving birth corporations; veteran OLLI instructor.
to a new nation. (Enrollment in the Development Committee,
Course #: LLI-2-083-004
previous course in this series in not a we are offering more
Two Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
prerequisite to enroll in this course.) Oct. 14, 21 classes, lectures, and
Note: A second section of this same Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 study trips than ever
course will be held on Mondays in the Fee: $0 before! As you choose
second term.
from over 100 offerings
Instructor: Dave Milidonis; founder
and managing director of the non- Understanding Dementia and this fall, please be aware
profit organization, the National Alzheimer’s Disease that classes, lectures, and
Veterans History Archival Institute What is the difference between
study trips overlap in time.
(NVHAI); 1974 graduate, U.S. Military Alzheimer’s disease and dementia? We suggest you double-
Academy, West Point; 20 years U.S. Is Alzheimer’s a disease something check the dates and times
Army infantry experience; veteran only older people get? How do of your choices before
OLLI instructor. I interact with a confused loved
Course #: LLI-1-366-001 finalizing your registration.
one? What can I expect after a Fees apply if you find that
Six Sessions: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. dementia diagnosis? Over five
Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21 million Americans are estimated to
you later need to cancel or
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 have Alzheimer’s disease today. The switch classes.
Fee: $55.00 number of Americans diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s disease and related
Find Your Inner OLLI - Teach dementias will grow steadily each year
the Class You Were as our aged 65 and older population Learning to Love the “New”
continues to increase. With 10,000
Meant to Teach people turning 65 each day, it is School Mathematics
Are you passionate about a subject important we discuss the answers Delve into today’s elementary school
that you’d like to share with OLLI to these often-asked questions. This mathematics to develop a deeper
members but don’t have much short course will explore different understanding of how this subject
teaching experience? Have you taught types of dementia, the “typical” has changed. You will revisit some
university courses to 18- to 22-year- progression of Alzheimer’s disease, big ideas in arithmetic to appreciate
olds but want to adapt your material and how to improve communication what your grandchildren are learning
to meet the learning needs and styles and interactions with someone with today. Activities are planned for
of an older audience? Then this two- dementia throughout their disease. each session that will engage you in
session course is for you. We’ll cover Instructor: Lisa Levine; BS, problem solving and mathematical
the techniques you need to become Psychology; Director of Education, reasoning to be shared later with
a successful OLLI instructor, from Dementia Alliance of North Carolina; your grandchildren or others. In this
understanding your audience to responsible for educational outreach interactive class you will gain insights
structuring your content, to managing to families, professionals, clergy, into how to help your grandchildren
discussion and using appropriate and law enforcement through have fun with mathematical ideas
classroom technology. OLLI Program community workshops, regional that align with the new NC MathFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Monday
Curriculum. Clarifying questions are Two Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Enslaved Runaways--
always welcome. Oct. 7, 14
Instructor: Sarah Burke Berenson; PhD, Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Resistance and Freedom
Mathematics Education, Florida State Fee: $30.00 Seeking in North Carolina
University; BS, Secondary Math/ History has well documented the
Science Education, University of
courageous and determined efforts
Massachusetts – Boston; Professor of
Mathematics Education for 27 years BE A CLASS HOST! of pre-Civil War era enslaved African
at NC State and UNC-G; Holladay Americans to find freedom in North
Medalist; retired. Class hosts make brief Carolina. This two-session course will
Course #: LLI-2-168-001 examine evidence of slave resistance
announcements, assist the
Three Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. at both the Stagville State Historic Site
Sept. 16, 23, 30 instructor with the audio-
and statewide.
Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 visual equipment and serve
• Sept. 16: Stagville was part of one
Fee: $40.00 as liaison between the class
of the largest plantations in NC and
and the OLLI office. Call us
over 900 individuals were enslaved
Field Marshall Sir John Dill: if you would like to host
there. Today the Stagville State Historic
Bridging Anglo-American a course in which you are
Site researches and teaches about the
Conflicts enrolled. It’s a great way to lives, work, and culture of enslaved
get to know instructors and people on the land. This lecture will
At the time of Dunkirk, FM John Dill
was Britain’s top army officer. Just fellow OLLI students. explore the everyday and dramatic
before Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister ways that people resisted slavery,
Winston Churchill sacked him for what drawing on oral history, archaeology
he felt was Dill’s ineptness. However, and the "Cameron Family Papers"
when the Combined Anglo-American Improv Comedy archived at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Chiefs of Staff committee was created Have you ever wanted to perform,
as the principal Allied war planning Presenter: Vera Cecelski; public
but don’t have the time or the energy historian and the site manager of
organization, Dill was made a full to audition for a play? Do you want
committee member. In that position Stagville State Historic Site. A Durham
to sharpen your communication,
he functioned, as one historian said, listening and memory skills? If you native, her work focuses on best
on the “dangerous edge of Anglo- answered “yes” to any of these practices for interpreting the history of
American relations [attempting questions, then this class is for you. slavery at historic sites.
to resolve recurring conflicts] of At its core, improvisation focuses • Sept. 23: Between 1775 and 1840,
command and control.” Amidst on “living in the moment” and
conflicts and frequent distrust between runaway slaves in North Carolina were
“saying yes.” It promotes paying separated from their families and
British and American war planners and attention, connecting with a partner,
commanders, Dill formed relationships many thought to be “disappeared.”
and understanding body language.
and devised means that dampened Over two classes, we will explore This lecture will use 18th- and 19th-
conflicts and promoted agreements. the fundamentals of improv comedy century newspaper advertisements
His work helped enable the joint through interactive activities. for lost slaves to trace the origins,
Anglo-American war effort to become Recommended: Truth in Comedy, growth and distribution of the
history’s most important and successful Charna Halpern; The Moth African American population. It will
military alliance. President Roosevelt Storytelling podcast.
described Dill as “the most important be an attempt to resurrect slave
Instructor: Amy Sawyers-Williams; personalities, examine physical
figure in the remarkable accord which Master’s Degree, Applied Theatre,The
has been developed on the combined qualities, destinations, rewards
City University of New York; oversees
operations of our two countries.” arts outreach and engagement at Arts and motivations for absconding.
Instructor: John Matthews; BS, Adelphi NC State; founding artistic director Presenter: Freddie L. Parker; M.A.,
University; PhD, Psychology, Duke of See Saw Projects, a new applied North Carolina Central University;
University; taught and studied 20th theatre company in the Triangle; PhD., UNC-Chapel Hill; Professor
Century American History; associate of has over ten years of professional
both the Marshall Foundation and The Emeritus, Department of History, North
experience performing and teaching Carolina Central University
Roosevelt Institute; in cooperation with improv, theatre, and storytelling.
Steve Ambrose, John has conducted Course #: LLI-2-177-001
Course #: LLI-2-178-001
oral history interviews with D-Day Two Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Two Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
participants and members of the Oct. 7, 14 Sept. 16, 23
French resistance. Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Course #: LLI-2-175-001 Fee: $30.00 Fee: $30.00FIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Monday - Tuesday
Three Heroines: Harriet Great Books: individuals, families, and society at
large, a growing army of temperance
Beecher Stowe, Pauli Murray "Great Conversations 4" and prohibition activists labored to
and Fannie Lou Hamer Join us for great conversations break down the public’s love affair
The class will explore the lives and about classic texts. Our readings with alcohol beginning in the mid-19th
thoughts of three heroines of faith, will be from Great Conversations 4, century, achieving ratification of the
justice, and compassion: Harriet Beecher an anthology compiled by the Great 18th Amendment in 1919. This course
Stowe, who awakened and mobilized Books Foundation. The course spans will examine the people and methods
multitudes to the anti-slavery cause in two terms to allow time for thoughtful of the Prohibition movement on state
the nineteenth century and who moved reading between sessions. Our and national levels, with attention
churches toward a more democratic schedule: to its political, social, and economic
and compassion-centered Christianity; • Sept. 23: Plutarch, Life of Nicias dimensions.
Pauli Murray, an activist, writer, lawyer • Oct. 7: Heinrich von Kleist, The Instructor: Angela Robbins; PhD,
and priest, who pioneered efforts Chilean Earthquake U.S. History, UNC-Greensboro,
against Jim and Jane Crow and who minor in Atlantic World Studies;
• Oct. 21: Henry David Thoreau,
was the first African-American woman Associate Professor, Meredith College;
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
to be ordained in the Episcopal Church; she specializes in women's history and
(selection, from Walden)
and Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi social movements in the 19th and 20th
sharecropper who became one of
• Nov. 4: Matthew Arnold, Culture century.
and Anxiety (selection) Course #: LLI-2-187-001
the brightest lights of the Civil Rights
movement and leader of the Mississippi • Nov. 18: William James, Two Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Freedom Democratic Party. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Oct. 14, 21
Recommended: A list of readings can Old Ways of Thinking (selection) Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
be found online under course listing. • Dec. 9: George Bernard Shaw, Fee: $30.00
Instructor: Collins Kilburn; Executive Major Barbara
Director Emeritus, North Carolina
Council of Churches, served for over
Required: Great Conversations 4;
purchase from the Great Books
“OLLI has such a
30 years; began ministry in 1960 at
Foundation bookstore for $24.95 wide variety of
Raleigh’s Community United Church
of Christ, was at the intersection of
(store.greatbooks.org). Enroll in
this course only if you are willing to
subjects so it’s fun to
religion and politics, relating religious
complete the readings and actively take something you
insights to issues of peace and social
and economic justice; graduate of
participate in class discussions.
Instructor: John Pilgrim; PhD,
wouldn’t normally
Duke Divinity School.
Economics, Vanderbilt University; BA, seek out. The classes
Course #: LLI-1-261-002
Six Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Economics, Grinnell College; professor
of economics for 35 years, now
make you think!”
Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21
retired; has taught various economics-
Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
related OLLI courses; facilitates
Fee: $55.00
the OLLI Great Books discussion Tuesday
group; veteran OLLI instructor.
Fair Trade in Course #: LLI-1-379-001
Developing Countries Six Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. The History of Architecture
Sept. 23, Oct. 7, 21, Nov. 4, 18, Dec. 9 This course is an introduction to
Fair trade is a trading practice that Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 the history of architecture. Sites,
emphasizes relationships, fair wages, Fee: $55.00 buildings, materials and techniques
and ending poverty over large profits.
will be addressed. The six session
We will explore how fair trade impacts
the lives of artisans and farmers, helps Prohibition and the topics will be Classical architecture,
Islamic architecture, Asian architecture,
women earn wages that limit their "Tyranny of Drink” European architecture, American
vulnerability to human trafficking,
American adults were consuming architecture and Modern/Post-Modern
makes a positive difference in towns
an average of 7 gallons of alcohol architecture. In each topic area
and villages, and helps to keep
annually by 1830. Compare that to there will be a selection of “typical”
children in school.
today -- in a culture enamored with examples, and one or two especially
Instructor: Kristine Ashwood, Director,
specialty cocktails and craft beer, when important examples that will be
Ten Thousand Villages.
the average is only 2.5 gallons -- examined in greater detail.
Course #: LLI-2-180-001
and the fervent dedication to ending Instructor: Dr. Harry Titus; educated
Two Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
“the tyranny of drink” becomes in Art and Architectural History at the
Sept. 30, Oct. 7
clear. Armed with arguments about University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
the destruction alcohol brought to and at Princeton University, where
Fee: $30.00FIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Tuesday
he earned a Ph.D degree; he was a George C. Marshall: American the Department of Communication;
member of the Art Department at Wake veteran OLLI instructor; OLLI member.
Forest University for 33 years before
Icon and Statesman Course #: LLI-1-084-003
retiring to Raleigh, where he has This course will include discussions Six Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
been a volunteer teacher at Longleaf of George Marshall’s life, character, Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22
School of the Arts for the last 6 years; and contributions to the nation. Born Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
his special interest is French Gothic in 1880, Marshall was a superb soldier Fee: $55.00
Architecture and Art. who epitomized the ideal of the citizen-
Course #: LLI-1-372-001 soldier. We will discuss his early years
Six Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. in Uniontown, PA, his college years “OLLI makes me a
Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
at VMI, and his service at home and
abroad, including France in World more interesting
Fee: $55.00 War I. We will highlight his service as and well-rounded
Army Chief in World War II, his role as person.”
a mediator between Communist and
Discovering the Dead at
Nationalist Chinese factions in 1946,
Oakwood Cemetery service as Secretary of State including
The Challenges of
OFFSITE the Marshall Plan, and finally service
as Secretary of Defense. Above all we Feeding the World
Join historian Bruce Miller and Robin
will focus on Marshall as a selfless Providing a growing world population
Simonton, Executive Director, Historic
servant of the nation in peace, war and with adequate food is a major
Oakwood Cemetery, for an engaging
diplomacy. challenge. In 2017, an estimated 820
course about the lives of our famous
Instructor: Mike Flynn; Army officer million people lacked sufficient food.
(and infamous) permanent residents.
with over 30 years of service including This course will highlight some of the
Along the way, we’ll learn about the
Army War College and service at Army research being conducted at NC State
history of cemeteries, monument art
Headquarters as Army Secretary for that is helping to address the global
and symbolism, and the history
Joint Affairs in the Army Operations problem of food insecurity.
of those who lived in our community.
Directorate; OLLI member. • Sept. 17: A new wave of university
This course will be held on the
Course #: LLI-1-357-001 research is focusing on the question
grounds and in the mausoleum, so be
Six Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. of how to sustainably produce
prepared for some weeks with lots of
Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 affordable and nutritious food of
walking and standing. With 144 years
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 sufficient quantity to meet the needs
spread out over 72 acres, we’ll learn a
Fee: $55.00 of our growing global population.
lot.
Instructors: Bruce Miller; AB, Global food and nutrition security
Dartmouth College; MA, UNC-Chapel Women and Men has four dimensions that encompass
both chronic and transitory situations:
Hill; former teacher/administrator in Conversation: availability, access, utilization,
Ravenscroft School; history teacher
at Deerfield Academy; authored
Communication and Gender and stability. We will discuss how
Oakwood to Oakwood, Volumes 1 & Popular television shows and dozens universities such as NC State are
2; co-authored Images of America: of advice books promise to help you uniquely positioned to implement
Historic Oakwood Cemetery with communicate better with the “opposite initiatives involving research and
Robin Simonton, 2017 sex.” Are women and men as different technological innovations, engage with
Robin Simonton; Executive Director as these pop psychologists claim? local communities and outside
of Historic Oakwood Cemetery since In what ways are we similar and partners, and educate students to
2011; BA, U.S. History, University of different, and how can we use our be the next generation to increase
Hawaii; MA, Historical Administration, understanding to better communicate yield, profitability, and environmental
Eastern Illinois University; served as with one another in our personal and sustainability simultaneously.
researcher of the book Oahu Cemetery: professional lives? In this course, we Presenter: Dr. Bob Patterson; Alumni
Burial Ground & Historic Site, by will explore the intersections among Distinguished Professor of Crop
Nanette Napoleon in 1997; co-authored communication, gender, and culture in Science, Dept. of Crop and Soil
Images of America: History Oakwood an attempt to better understand Sciences, NC State
Cemetery with Bruce Miller, 2017. ourselves and others and strengthen • Sept. 24: The culprit behind the
Course #: LLI-1-006-006 our effectiveness as communicators. 19th-century Irish potato famine was
Six Sessions: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Instructor: Rebecca Leonard, Phytophthora infestans, a fungus-
Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 PhD; Associate Professor Emerita like microorganism that causes the
Limit: 25 Location: Oakland Cemetery. of Communication at NC State; disease known as “potato late blight.”
Directions will be sent prior to first member of the NC State Academy of Research involving new genetic
class. Outstanding Teachers; twice received tools has enabled scientists to piece
Fee: $55.00 the Outstanding Teacher Award from together the evolution of this pathogen
and the history of its outbreaks inFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Tuesday
Ireland, which has implications Literature of Africa, Latin tenets of the religion. The course will
for global food security by the use also provide an introduction to Indian
of genomic tools to track outbreaks.
America, and the Black art and architecture, starting from
Presenter: Dr. Jean Atlantic the Harappan Civilization and ending
Ristaino; Professor, Entomology and This course will explore select fiction with the Mughal period. We will take
Plant Pathology, NC State and poetry that is representative a broad look at the artistic heritage of
• Oct. 1: This session will explore of post-colonial (20th century) India through the lens of a few iconic
whether foreseeable changes in Africa, Latin America, and the Black objects of sculpture, painting, and
technology hold the promise to Atlantic. Beginning with Conrad’s architecture.
vastly increase food production. We ambivalences and equivocations Instructors: Sanjay Rao; MS,
will review past innovations and try regarding Empire, as well as Memmi’s University of New Haven, CT; MBA,
to predict and explore useful trends and Fanon’s critiques of the Imperial UNC Chapel Hill; currently working
that may allow us to preserve and imagination, the course will explore as director of Voice Solutions at
distribute more food, so it is there the dualities of Empire as lived Genesys, holds four patents pertaining
when needed. Presenter: Dr. John experience foregrounded in works to telecom solutions; has conducted
Rushing; Professor Emeritus, Food by such renowned writers as Ngugi holy fire sacrifices at the local Hindu
Science, NC State Wa Thiongo, Jamaica Kincaid, J.M. Temple.
• Oct. 8: Livestock contribute high- Coetzee, and Pablo Neruda. The Kishor Trevidi; MS, PhD, University
quality foods for human nutrition, literature we will read and discuss of Illinois; B.Tech (EE), IIT, Mumbai;
and many developing countries finds special potency in the tropes and Hudson Chair, Department of Electrical
would benefit from increased animal metaphors of gender and power to and Computer Engineering, Duke
production efficiency. This session deconstruct the disorder of Western University; on Duke faculty since
will focus on how ruminant livestock colonialism in the so-called “Third 1975; has moderated a study group on
can continue to contribute unique World” of the late 20th century. Bhagavad Gita and Upanisads since 1991.
services to man while decreasing their Structured around reading and Srima Chithamoor; earned a PG
environmental impact. Presenter: discussion, this course is designed Diploma in Asian Art History from
Dr. Matt Poore; Professor, Animal to be a stimulating book club for SOAS in London; former docent
Science, NC State committed readers. at the Asian Civilizations Museum
• Oct. 15: This presentation will Required: Heart of Darkness, Joseph in Singapore for 6 years, worked
review NC State research that is Conrad; Pedro Paramo, Juan as a guide, lecturer and research
advancing genomic-assisted breeding Rulfo; Weep Not Child, Ngugi coordinator
in potato and sweet potato. Dr. Yencho Kincaid; The Autobiography of My Course #: LLI-1-216-002
will share successes and challenges, Mother, Jamaica Kincaid; Disgrace, Six Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
and conclude with some thoughts J.M. Coetzee; Selected Poems, Pablo Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22
on future training needs/methods Neruda (start reading these works Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
for students interested in utilizing before the first course session). Fee: $55.00
genomic-assisted breeding for cultivar Instructor: Maria Rouphail; PhD;
development. Presenter: Dr. Senior Lecturer Emerita of English at
Craig Yencho; William Neal Reynolds NC State; with decades of university
Distinguished Professor, Horticultural teaching experience, Dr. Rouphail has “OLLI has opened
Sciences, NC State authored two collections of poetry; my mind.”
• Oct. 22: This session will discuss at work on her third, she is Poetry
getting the economic incentives Editor of the literary magazine, Main The Power of the Singular
“right” and policy choices and Street Rag.
priorities; it will provide examples of Image: Appreciating
Course #: LLI-1-358-001
successful and unsuccessful polices Six Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Memorable Photography
for improving food production and Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 One picture IS worth a thousand
availability. There will also be time to Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 words. Even in this video age,
reflect and discuss lessons learned Fee: $55.00 single-shot photographs still retain
throughout the course. Presenters: the power to commemorate and
Dr. Geoff Benson; Professor Emeritus,
Agriculture and Resource Economics,
Hinduism 101 celebrate life. This course will take you
on a grand tour of photographs
NC State; Dr. George Wilson; Professor This course will provide a review and that have enlightened, entertained,
Emeritus, Horticultural Science, NC State examination of Hinduism based on a and energized viewers over 100
Course #: LLI-1-382-001 vast array of practices and traditions. years. Exhibited photographer Larry
Six Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Hinduism is one of the oldest religions, Bliss will curate images of people,
Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 dating back to its origination from the current and historical events, sports,
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 Indus valley civilization. You will gain celebrations, and art for art’s sake. He
Fee: $55.00 a better understanding of the many will provide background information
scriptures, rituals, festivals and otherFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Tuesday - Wednesday
on each photograph and then ask for
your reactions. Pre- and post-session
Wednesday friendly”? Learn about currently
available electric vehicles and the ones
emails will preview upcoming images anticipated within the next two years.
and suggest resources for further The First Carolinians Instructor: Thomas Toms; BSEE NC
exploration. Learners will see images State; IEEE & ISA; over forty years
This course will provide a historical
from old and new masters such as of experience as a design engineer in
overview of North Carolina from
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Richard the fields of systems integration, man-
before European exploration through
Avedon and Annie Leibovitz. machine interfaces, cyber security,
the American Revolution. Included will
Instructor: Larry Bliss; NC process control, automation, and
be discussions of native inhabitants,
State alumnus, has participated in archiving of historical data.
new arrivals, and the development
photographic exhibitions and solo Course #: LLI-2-167-001
and difficulties of the colony under the
shows; interest in photography began Two Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
proprietary and royal governments.
with a clunky Sears Instamatic format Sept. 18, 25
Instructor: Joe Mobley; recently retired
camera and he now roams the city Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
from teaching in the Department of
with his trusty Nikon. Fee: $30.00
History at NC State and has authored
Course #: LLI-2-170-001
several books related to the history of
Three Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. The Brain Broken Down:
North Carolina.
Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1
Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
Course #: LLI-1-169-002 Insights from Neurology
Six Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Fee: $40.00 After a basic introduction to the
Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23
structure of the brain and its building
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Abraham Lincoln, the blocks (neurons, glia, blood vessels,
Fee: $55.00
etc.), this course will “break down” our
Abolition President complicated brains to discuss
Abraham Lincoln was a master of specific aspects of brain function,
moral certainty and political sagacity. as well as brains that have “broken
Do you prefer viewing down” due to neurological disorders.
This course will briefly review the
your choices by calen- The goal of this course is to impart
246-year history of American slavery
(1619–1865), its impact on the creation
dar grid or subject area? an appreciation for the complexity
The Fall 2019 Semester of everyday brain function, create
of the United States, and the events
is also available by day an understanding of how we are
leading up to the American Civil all “different” neurologically, de-
War. There will be detailed discussion of the week or by subject
stigmatize neurological and psychiatric
of Abraham Lincoln’s life, his ambition, on our website. Go to disorders, and promote metacognition
and motivation for reentering politics www.ncsu.edu/olli and (thinking about our thinking). The
in 1854. We will delve into Lincoln’s choose “Programs.” instructor plans to remain on site and
complicated personal character and be available for questions after each
his important views on race, human class.
rights, and civil liberties. We will Instructor: Dr. Eric Harris: PhD;
analyze the political strategy that Neuroscience, University of Virginia;
Lincoln developed to become the
Is There an Electric Vehicle over 40 years of neuroscience
leader of the Republican Party, get in Your Future? experience in academia, the
pharmaceutical industry, and with FDA
elected President, win the Civil War, Why would over 400,000 people put
interactions related to neurological
and end slavery. Did Lincoln control down a $1,000 refundable deposit
and psychiatric diseases and
events or did events control him? on a vehicle that they hadn’t seen,
treatments; retired but still passionate
Instructor: Joe H. Simpson; BA in couldn’t test drive, and wouldn’t be
about neuroscience and science
History, UNC-CH, 1973; avid reader and delivered until two years later? Learn
education.
researcher of 19th century American the good and bad points of electric
Course #: LLI-1-365-001
vehicles from an owner’s perspective
history for 26 years with an emphasis Six Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
after driving an electric sedan for
on Abraham Lincoln’s life and the Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23
12 months. What factors should
social, economic, and political events Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
you consider before purchasing an
leading up to the American Civil War. Fee: $55.00
electric vehicle? What’s the difference
Course #: LLI-2-190-001 between a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid,
Three Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. and a battery electric vehicle? How Awakening the Sage Within
Oct. 8, 15, 22 does the driving experience differ from This course presents a profound
Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 a gasoline-powered vehicle? What new vision for growing older. Drawn
Fee: $40.00 options are available for charging? directly from Zalman Schachter-
Are electric vehicles “environmentally Shalomi’s ground-breaking book, FromFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Wednesday
Age-ing to Sage-ing, and developed changing political environment. radiation biology at Rush University
by Sage-ing International (www. This course will explore, debate, Medical College; former senior
sage-ing.org), this program teaches and discuss the intent of the original medical director at GlaxoSmithKline,
a new way of living the second framers of the Constitution regarding RTP.
half of our lives, sometimes called its provisions and examine how the Course #: LLI-2-172-001
conscious aging. This participatory “original intent” of those provisions Three Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
group-learning course will begin have been applied over decades. Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2
the process of awakening the sage Discussions will focus on historical Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
within by exploring: 1) our images of cases in which the original terms have Fee: $40.00
aging and the qualities of a wise elder; been more broadly interpreted in light
2) spiritual growth -- lifelong learning of evolving technologies, practices, OLLI 101
and self-examination; 3) life review -- and values. The springboard for
harvesting one’s legacy; 4) forgiveness discussions will be based on the U.S. We say that OLLI at NC State is
work -- letting go of pain; 5) facing Constitution, the Federalist Papers, member-based and member-driven.
personal mortality; and 6) sharing our and constitutional case decisions of The program is a unit of NC State’s
gifts of service and legacy. the past. Your perspectives and input McKimmon Center for Extension &
Note: Please enroll only if you are will be welcomed throughout the Continuing Education and part of the
willing to actively participate. class. Osher Institute network. But what does
Recommended: Conscious Living, Instructor: Steve Schanz; JD, all of that mean to how the program
Conscious Aging, Ron Pevny; Pepperdine Univ. Law School, LLM, operates? This short course is your
From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Zalman Health Law from Loyola University- chance to “look under the hood” of
Schachter-Shalomi. Chicago; has lectured and written OLLI at NC State. OLLI staff will explain
Instructors: Don Adams; 45 years as a extensively on health care issues, both why we do what we do the way we
practicing child & family psychologist; nationally and internationally; has do it and how valuable member
has also authored and taught intimate represented many physicians and involvement/input is to keeping the
relationship skills workshops for health care entities in private practice. program current and exciting.
couples, and men’s personal growth Course #: LLI-1-355-001 Course #: LLI-2-192-001
retreats during the last 20 years; Six Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Two Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
certified Sage-ing Leader; OLLI Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 Oct. 16, 23
member. Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 Limit: 24 Location: Room 13
Stacy Grove; M. Div.; CSL-Yerusha; Fee: $55.00 Fee: $0, for OLLI members only.
interfaith minister and spiritual
director who facilitates conscious The Allied Victory Over the
aging wisdom circles and sound Nazis and the Immigrants
healing programs; committed to
serving persons seeking wholeness Register online at Who Changed the World
through deep inter-spiritual Through PowerPoint, film clips, and
www.ncsu.edu/olli
experiences. information shared by a veteran
Course #: LLI-1-082-003 guest speaker, you will learn about
Six Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. the extreme sacrifices made during
Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 World War II by both men and
Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 Breathing 101 women. You will also develop a fuller
Fee: $55.00 understanding of the contributions
This course will provide an overview made by foreign men and women
of respiratory illnesses. In the first towards the war and technology.
The Constitution – Malleable session, we will discuss the structure When anti-Semitic polices spread
Document or Unsusceptible of the lungs, how they work, and how throughout Europe, some of the
to Interpretation? their function is measured; next, we greatest scientific minds of the 20th
will focus on common lung diseases, century immigrated to America. These
The U.S. Constitution establishes three such as asthma and chronic bronchitis/
independent, co-equal branches of immigrants became a driving force
emphysema; in the last session, the behind the development of the atomic
government that are dependent on topic will be non-drug treatments and
each other to properly function; their bomb and nuclear energy. Following
medicines for asthma and chronic the war, Operation Paperclip brought
scope is very broad, including, but bronchitis/emphysema.
not limited to, the powers of taxation, Germany’s most brilliant rocket
Instructor: David B. Rubin, MD. Retired scientists to the States; they played a
free speech, due process, and internist and lung specialist; 40+ years
government searches and seizures. pivotal role in developing America’s
in basic science and clinical research missile defense and space program.
Since its signing, the terms have been and clinical practice; was associate
confronted with evolving morals, Instructor: Josh Quackenbush; Life
professor of internal medicine, Enrichment Director, Stoneridge
new technologies, and a continually pulmonary and critical care, andFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Wednesday - Thursday
Independent Retirement Community;
he has conducted extensive research
Thursday route to inspiration. First museum
visits typically spawn lifelong
in the National Archives and memories. Today, museums cover a
interviewed key people involved in the Disaster or Opportunity: range of subjects -- natural history,
U.S. national defense and Kennedy human history, art, science and
The Next Decade of Investing
space program; he has written feature technology, children’s interests -- as
articles for World War II History Ten years ago, the financial system well as those delving into narrower
magazine and former Apex Herald was near total collapse. World-wide topics. Each has a broadening toolkit
newspaper. unemployment soared. Millions lost for the services they provide and the
Course #: LLI-1-363-001 their homes to foreclosure. Since external contexts to which they relate.
Six Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. that time, new economic forces and Increasingly, the museum sector -- and
Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 players have led the financial world the eclectic profession that propels it --
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 to the longest recovery in history. is mindful of its need to be relevant
Fee: $55.00 Since these forces will continue to to the challenges and opportunities
shape the economic and investment facing humanity and environments,
opportunities for the next decade or both locally and globally. This course
Finding the Artist Within more, attention should be paid. This aims to integrate your experiences
This interactive course will explore course will examine the investment and outlooks, and illuminate the past
what it takes to be an artist (literary, opportunities as the world population and present of nature and science
visual, performing, and/or electronic ages, national debts soar, and new museums, with an emphasis on the
media) and help you discover technologies rise from the tech and need for these institutions to be future-
your secret reserves of talent and financial booms and busts. What minded and meaningful resources for
creativity, allowing your natural artistic are the implications of artificial all in their communities.
expression to emerge. If you are an intelligence, genetic engineering, Instructor: Emlyn Koster; PhD,
emerging artist already or an artist robotics, and blockchain on consumers Geology, University of Ottawa;
wanna-be or never thought you could and investors? A $1,000 investment former CEO of Royal Tyrrell Museum
be one, this course will give you the in Netflix 10 years ago would be of Paleontology and Ontario Science
tools to unlock your creative soul. In worth approximately $51,000 today. Centre, Liberty Science Center in the
this course, you will: 1) Learn what The same investment in GE would NY-NJ region, and NC Museum of
distinguishes an artist, talent, and be worth $490. The next decade Natural Sciences; adjunct professor
creativity as well as what blocks it could present some of the greatest in MEAS Department at NC State;
and allows for it; 2) Explore practices opportunities for wealth creation of Ambassador for International Coalition
that can enhance your creativity and our lifetime for those who get it right. of Sites of Conscience; his unusual
artistic expression; 3) Determine what For those who miss out, the next integration of the geological and
and how you’d like to express yourself decade could be as difficult as the museological professions has been
as an artist; 4) Decide what the next previous one. recognized through peer awards,
steps or avenues are available for you Recommended: A list of readings can media coverage, and conference
to take to make, market, or display be found online under course listing. keynote presentations.
your creative expression Instructor: James M. Course #: LLI-2-179-001
Required: a $7 materials fee to be paid Richardson; Private Wealth Three Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
in cash to the instructor on the first Advisor, Certified Financial Oct. 10, 17, 24
day of class Planner, Chartered Financial Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Instructor: Penney De Pas; MA, Arts Consultant, and Accredited Portfolio Fee: $40.00
Administration, concentrating in art Management Advisor; Managing
history; painter, dancer, and published Principal, Richardson Private Wealth
writer; results and productivity coach, Advisors; veteran OLLI instructor.
Vulnerable Populations:
2000-2017; created and delivered Course #: LLI-2-182-001 Martyrs on the Altar of
“Finding the Artist Within,” “Sustaining Three Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Science
the Artist Within,” and/or “Stoking the Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3
Creative Fires” at Pullen Arts Center, Systematic racism has been part of
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Durham Arts Council, Visual Arts the structural framework for American
Fee: $40.00
Exchange & Unity of the Triangle. history over the past 400 years. The
Course #: LLI-1-369-001 Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the “Acres
Nature and Science of Skin” Holmesburg Prison Human
Six Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 Museums: Past, Present Experiments, and the Jewish Chronic
Disease Study are examples of
Limit: 15 Location: Room 13 and Future
Fee: $55.00 medical research abuses inflicted on
The word “museum” originates minorities. This pattern has resulted
with the Muses in Greek mythology. in an ongoing deep mistrust of
It reminds us how reflection is a medical science and research. ThisFIRST TERM COURSES________________________________________
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Thursday - Friday
course will examine: 1) the definition Immigration: Its History and County EMS uses to respond to the
of “vulnerable populations;” 2) the ever-increasing and evolving demands
impact of slavery, Jim Crow, Native
Recent Developments
of modern EMS response.
American genocide, and immigration Immigration is a hot topic these days. Instructor: Jeffrey Hammerstein; AAS,
restrictions; 3) horrific abuses of We hear and read about it throughout
NC EMT-P, Assistant Chief, Wake
individual rights and human dignity the media. The United States, a nation
County EMS; began with EMS in
in the name of furthering scientific of immigrants, has gone through
four major waves of immigration that 1985, including 18 years working
knowledge; 4) how research atrocities
shaped its culture and economy. We on an ambulance and 10 years as
resulted in a framework of legal,
ethical and regulatory protections will examine those four waves, and a supervisor; became Asst. Chief in
governing the conduct of safe and the concurrent immigration laws and January 2014.
ethical human research; and 5) the social and economic trends. We will Course #: LLI-2-173-001
risks and rewards of taking part in also touch on legal issues surrounding Two Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
research studies and clinical trials. immigration, from its history to recent Sept. 20, 27
Recommended: A list of readings can developments and policies. Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
be found online under course listing. Instructor: Suzana Stoffel Martins Fee: $30.00
Instructor: Mark Long, MPA, University Albano; LLM, Duke University;
of Georgia; worked for 38 years in JD, Catholic University of Santos,
public health and research oversight Brazil; attorney who has practiced “I love the
intellectual
for the Centers for Disease Control & immigration, family law, international
Prevention, The University of Medicine law, and contracts in both Brazil and
& Dentistry of New Jersey, St. Jude in the U.S.; she enjoys teaching not stimulation
Children’s Research Hospital, and in only legal topics, but also English, and and friendships
formed through
the Department of Veteran Affairs. sociocultural subjects.
Course #: LLI-1-359-002 Course #: LLI-1-381-001
Six Sessions: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Six Sessions: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. OLLI.”
Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Fee: $55.00 Fee: $55.00
Hurdy Gurdy: Instrument of
The Surgeons: Monks, Beggars and Royalty
Life on the Edge Enroll Today! The hurdy gurdy is one of the longest
Classes and trips lived instruments in music; its history
Repairing wounds and stopping blood will be described from the 10th century
loss was practiced from prehistory, fill quickly. to today, using iconography, writings
but where did the idea of cutting and extant instruments. Images and
on people come from? This course audible examples will illustrate, along
will take a brief trip through surgical
history, starting with the chronological
Friday with a demonstration on a hurdy
gurdy by the instructor.
development of anatomy, control Instructor: John Montgomery;
of blood loss, control of pain, and The Wake County Bachelor's Degree, Lawrence
asepsis. We will then thematically University; trained violin maker at
follow the evolution of four surgical
EMS System
the Violin Making School of America
sub-specialties: plastic surgery, EMS has changed dramatically in in Salt Lake City and with William
transplant surgery, heart surgery, scope and capability since its inception Monical in Staten Island; has been
and brain surgery. The concluding in the mid-1900s. What began as a making, restoring and selling
lecture will include a few speculations process for merely transporting the instruments and bows since 1983;
regarding the future of surgery. sick and injured to a hospital to receive member of the American Federation
Instructor: Jerry Swyers; BS, of Violin and Bow Makers; VSA, as
care has evolved into a system to
University of Florida; MD, University faculty at the Oberlin Violin Making
bring progressive emergency medical
of Florida; specialty training in Internal summer program and a violin making
Medicine, University of Florida; OB- care directly to the patient’s side. In
competition judge; Thomas J. Watson
GYN, Baylor College of Medicine; OLLI this course, we’ll take a close-up look
Fellow, having researched and built
member and veteran instructor at the advanced clinical care provided hurdy gurdies in France.
Course #: LLI-1-380-001 by modern paramedics. We will delve Course #: LLI-2-185-001
Six Sessions: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. into how EMS uses research and data Two Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 collection to drive protocol, and we Oct. 4, 11
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 will get a hands-on look at some of Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12
Fee: $55.00 the various vehicles and tactics Wake Fee: $30.00FIRST TERM LECTURES_______________________________________
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Monday
Fall Semester Kick-Off Lecture and Open House
Everyday Ecology with Dr. Rob Dunn
NC State’s Professor of Applied Ecology Dr. Rob Dunn returns to OLLI to discuss the biodiversity
of the world all around us, the foundation for his acclaimed book Never Home Alone. He will give
an update on what scientific discoveries are taking place in the Dunn Lab, and the contribution of
public science projects to further the study of our ecosystem.
Robert Dunn; Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, NC State; biologist, writer; author of several books, including
The Wild Life of Our Bodies, Every Living Thing, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, and Never Out of Season; his
popular science essays have appeared in magazines such as BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian
Magazine, National Geographic; he is known for efforts to involve the public as citizen scientists in arthropod surveys
and bacterial flora studies; has published over a hundred and fifty scientific papers, many of them about discoveries
made in our everyday environments, from bedrooms to bathrooms and beyond. His most recent book is the critically-
acclaimed Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybee, the Natural History of
Where We Live.
Wednesday, September 11 from 2:00-3:00pm
Course #: LLI-3-278-001
Registration: Free, and open to the public, but registration is required.
Registration deadline: Sept. 6
TBD, McKimmon Center
Learn more about Your Member Benefits at the OLLI Open House
From 3:15-4:30 pm, you will have the opportunity to learn more about OLLI and its membership benefits, as you stop
by information booths and socialize with OLLI members, staff, our campus and community partners, and representa-
tives from OLLI’s committees and special interest groups. Refreshments will be served.
Monday State University Academy of
Outstanding Teachers; lecturer at the
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Much of
Kahlo’s art has been analyzed as a
original Chautauqua Institution in New symptom of her turbulent private life,
How Corn and Tomato Clubs York, as well as other Chautauqua and not as evidence of her activism.
programs. To some degree, Kahlo’s paintings
Changed Rural America
Course #: LLI-3-345-001 reflect the nationalist ideology of
Education in rural America was dismal One Session: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. post-revolutionary Mexico that revered
in the early 1900s. It was characterized Oct. 21 indigenous culture and tradition.
by mindless devotion to the classics Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 However, her self-portraiture also
and rote memorization. However, the Fee: $15.00 undermines, complicates and resists
emergence of Boys’ Corn Clubs and Registration Deadline: Oct. 18 these ideologies. Post-Revolutionary
Girls’ Tomato Clubs changed schooling indigenismo attempted to cauterize
for the better. We will explore why the wounds of Mexico’s violent history,
the clubs came into existence, how
Re-examining Frida Kahlo’s
but Kahlo lets those wounds bleed.
education was enhanced, and how the Self-Portraits in the Age of Through her investigation of her own
clubs operated. It is somewhat fitting the Selfie subjectivity, Kahlo redefines what
that the building in which we meet, the it means to be mestiza and might
Taking selfies is routinely regarded
McKimmon Center, was named after even encourage more contemporary
as narcissistic, an act of self-
the state leader of the North Carolina audiences to reassess the strategic
obsession. Similarly, women who
Girls’ Tomato Clubs. agency of the selfie.
feature themselves at the center of
Instructor: Dr. Gary Moore; Professor Instructor: Corinne Andersen; Ph.D.
their art, often via autobiography or
Emeritus, Agricultural and in Comparative Literature from the
self-portraiture, have had their work
Extension Education, NC State University of Illinois with a Women’s
reduced to solipsistic conceit by their
University; member of the NC Studies Doctoral Minor; Thesis
critics. Case in point: the infamousFIRST TERM LECTURES_______________________________________
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Monday
Title: Representing the Subject: An evolution and how we might use Aging: Living to the Edge of
Interdisciplinary Study of Women’s modern evolutionary approaches
Autobiography, Self-Portraiture and to understand the origins of
the Frame, Even as It Narrows
Autoethography in the Twentieth extraterrestrial life—if and when such As we age, our abilities may decline.
Century. Professor of English at life is found. This presentation will However, our lives need not become
William Peace University since 2004. give you a better understanding of smaller. How do we continue to live
Course #: LLI-3-358-001 evolution, and, perhaps, a greater a full life, even as the size of our
One Session: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. appreciation for Star Trek. It’s only frame diminishes? This presentation
Oct. 14 logical. will feature stories of people who are
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 Instructor: Mohamed Noor; PhD, doing just that and wisdom that has
Fee: $15.00 University of Chicago, currently been gained through work as an elder
Registration Deadline: Oct. 11 professor of Biology at Duke consultant. The presenter hopes to
University. Research focuses on expand, inspire and possibly re-frame
the evolutionary forces and genetic how we approach aging.
What is America? Changing
changes that cause new species to Instructor: Liisa Ogburn; came to the
Maps of the U.S. form. Teaches genetics and evolution career of elder consulting through the
This lecture will be a quick tour of on Coursera. doorway of taking care of her in-laws,
dozens of maps, showing the changing Course #: LLI-3-348-001 which she wrote about for the New
political landscape of the U.S. How One Session: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. York Times; she previously taught at
were states carved out of territories Sept. 16 Duke; currently writes on elder issues
and admitted? How was land on Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 for WRAL and lectures widely.
the borders and overseas acquired, Fee: $15.00 Course #: LLI-3-359-001
purchased, seized? Why are there Registration Deadline: Sept. 13 One Session: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
panhandles in Florida and Oklahoma, Sept. 23
and why two Dakotas? What are the Limit: 120 Location: OLLI - TBA
Reading "Eugene Onegin,"
possibilities for new future states, from Fee: $15.00
territories or from dividing current
Russia's Greatest Hit Registration Deadline: Sept. 20
states? And is Alaska really half the Although Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are
size of the continental U.S. (as shown arguably Russia’s best-known literary The Origin of the Elements:
on many maps)? exports, most any Russian worth his
Recommended: How the States Got or her salt will tell you that Alexander
Why We Are Made of Stardust
Their Shapes, Mark Stein; How to Hide Pushkin is Russia’s greatest writer, and In the last 70 years, science has been
an Empire: A History of the Greater most will agree that Eugene Onegin able to understand, in general terms,
United States, Daniel Immerwahr. is his masterpiece. How did this come the origin of the elements. Apart from
Instructor: Alan Wood; M.Ed., UNC- to be? What explains the special hydrogen and helium, the elements
Charlotte, B.A. Geography, UNC- place this fragmentary novel in verse have been created in stars; the dust
Chapel Hill; OLLI member. holds in the hearts and imaginations from these stars is the raw material for
Course #: LLI-3-360-001 of Russians and why is it said to be newer stars and planets like the Sun
One Session: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. untranslatable? In spite of this putative and the Earth. While important details
Oct. 21 untranslatability, how has the Onegin remain, the story of nucleosynthesis
Limit: 58 Location: Room 11/12 form traveled the world to inspire represents one of the greatest
Fee: $15.00 other great works, most notably scientific discoveries of all time. This
Registration Deadline: Oct. 17 Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate? We’ll discussion will provide you with a
explore these and other questions basic background of the physics and
referencing the translation by Falen. astrophysics underlying this discovery,
Learning Evolutionary
Instructor: Clark Troy; PhD, CFP® and will mention some of the current
Concepts Through "Star Trek" earned his PhD in Russian Literature theories and observations that are
Have you ever wondered why most from Columbia University, after attempting to solve the remaining
alien life depicted on Star Trek majoring in Russian at Yale. He taught mysteries hidden in the details of
strongly resembles us earthlings? Russian at both Columbia and Drew elemental abundances.
This presentation will explore Universities before transitioning to a Recommended: Astrophysics for
the possibility of humanoid career in finance. People In a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson
or other forms of life on other Course #: LLI-3-341-001 Instructor: Professor Don Ellison;
planets. Drawing on relevant One Session: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. PhD, The Catholic University of
scenes from the series, Dr. Noor will Sept. 16 America; NC State University faculty
present evidence for the existence Limit: 24 Location: Room 13 member since 1987; has taught and
of a common ancestor for life on Fee: $15.00 done research on the theory of cosmic
Earth and will clarify misconceptions Registration Deadline: Sept. 13 rays, particle acceleration in high-
about evolutionary biology. energy astrophysics, and the modeling
He will discuss the science of of supernova remnants; recent workYou can also read
